CI/CD
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for CI/CD skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited CI/CD over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 25 18
Rank change year-on-year -6 -7 +3
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 6,038 8,482 19,588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.10% 8.38% 12.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.13% 8.76% 12.89%
Number of salaries quoted 3,236 5,431 8,206
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +11.54%
75th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £91,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £106,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +13.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

CI/CD is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,735 96,775 152,013
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.60% 95.70%
Number of salaries quoted 59,708 57,079 82,921
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,740
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing CI/CD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for CI/CD in the UK

CI/CD
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing CI/CD.

Salary trend for CI/CD in the UK

CI/CD
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing CI/CD over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Salary histogram for CI/CD in the UK

CI/CD
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CI/CD within the UK over the 6 months to 13 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London +13 4,339 £62,500 -3.85% 686
England -27 3,618 £70,000 -6.67% 1,182
Scotland +32 2,112 £65,000 -3.70% 78
Work from Home -15 1,945 £67,500 -10.00% 701
London -17 1,411 £85,000 +5.86% 565
North of England -16 648 £62,500 -3.85% 193
South East -33 611 £64,000 -8.57% 131
South West 0 431 £65,000 - 125
North West -8 379 £62,500 -7.41% 118
Midlands -20 351 £65,000 - 85
West Midlands -1 250 £65,000 - 63
Yorkshire -24 197 £65,000 - 55
East Midlands -29 101 £60,000 -11.11% 21
East of England -66 94 £62,500 -10.71% 50
Wales +7 83 £55,000 +4.76% 24
North East +2 72 £63,000 +9.57% 21
Northern Ireland -41 10 £61,250 +25.64% 15
Isle of Man - 3 - -
Channel Islands - 2 £115,000 -

CI/CD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 615 (10.19%) Apache Spark
2 253 (4.19%) Apache
3 192 (3.18%) Apache Airflow
4 98 (1.62%) FileNet
5 96 (1.59%) Confluence
6 58 (0.96%) nginx
7 57 (0.94%) SharePoint
8 55 (0.91%) IIS
9 42 (0.70%) CMS
10 37 (0.61%) OpenStack
11 26 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
12 21 (0.35%) GemFire
13 20 (0.33%) Camunda
14 18 (0.30%) Cloud Foundry
14 18 (0.30%) Jupyter
15 16 (0.26%) WordPress
16 14 (0.23%) Umbraco
17 11 (0.18%) CICS
18 9 (0.15%) Tomcat
19 8 (0.13%) Apache Pig
Applications
1 21 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.099%) Photoshop
4 5 (0.083%) Adobe XD
4 5 (0.083%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.050%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.050%) Simulink
5 3 (0.050%) Sketch
6 2 (0.033%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.033%) S-PLUS
7 1 (0.017%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.017%) Blender
7 1 (0.017%) Notion
7 1 (0.017%) PTC Creo
7 1 (0.017%) SOLIDWORKS
7 1 (0.017%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 63 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
3 9 (0.15%) Shopify
4 7 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
4 7 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.066%) Dynamics NAV
5 4 (0.066%) NetSuite
5 4 (0.066%) Oracle Applications
5 4 (0.066%) Visualfiles
6 3 (0.050%) Magento
7 2 (0.033%) Adaptiv
7 2 (0.033%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 2,834 (46.94%) AWS
2 2,105 (34.86%) Azure
3 883 (14.62%) Azure DevOps
4 571 (9.46%) GCP
5 533 (8.83%) Serverless
6 411 (6.81%) GitHub
7 326 (5.40%) Amazon S3
8 298 (4.94%) SaaS
9 297 (4.92%) AWS Lambda
10 232 (3.84%) Power Platform
11 225 (3.73%) Amazon ECS
12 221 (3.66%) Amazon EC2
13 202 (3.35%) Amazon EKS
14 180 (2.98%) AWS CloudFormation
15 179 (2.96%) PaaS
16 173 (2.87%) Cloud Computing
17 171 (2.83%) GitHub Actions
18 154 (2.55%) Datadog
19 149 (2.47%) Dynamics 365
20 133 (2.20%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 150 (2.48%) Firewall
2 111 (1.84%) DNS
3 77 (1.28%) WAN
4 66 (1.09%) Kerberos
5 63 (1.04%) VPN
6 52 (0.86%) Network Security
7 47 (0.78%) HTTP
8 36 (0.60%) SD-WAN
9 34 (0.56%) TCP/IP
10 26 (0.43%) DHCP
11 23 (0.38%) Internet
12 18 (0.30%) BGP
12 18 (0.30%) DSL
13 17 (0.28%) LAN
14 16 (0.26%) MQTT
14 16 (0.26%) SSL
15 14 (0.23%) PBX
16 11 (0.18%) Ethernet VPN
16 11 (0.18%) MPLS
16 11 (0.18%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 875 (14.49%) NoSQL
2 549 (9.09%) Big Data
3 403 (6.67%) SQL Server
4 294 (4.87%) Hadoop
5 258 (4.27%) Data Warehouse
6 257 (4.26%) Relational Database
7 253 (4.19%) PostgreSQL
8 234 (3.88%) Elasticsearch
9 195 (3.23%) MySQL
10 191 (3.16%) MongoDB
11 186 (3.08%) Amazon RDS
12 182 (3.01%) Data Lake
13 169 (2.80%) Apache Cassandra
14 156 (2.58%) Apache Hive
15 132 (2.19%) BigQuery
16 118 (1.95%) Power BI
17 113 (1.87%) Looker
18 110 (1.82%) DynamoDB
19 105 (1.74%) Metadata
20 104 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 1,020 (16.89%) Jenkins
2 849 (14.06%) Git
3 411 (6.81%) GitLab
4 310 (5.13%) JIRA
5 295 (4.89%) JUnit
6 215 (3.56%) Selenium
7 166 (2.75%) Cucumber
8 152 (2.52%) Bitbucket
9 145 (2.40%) Cypress.io
10 140 (2.32%) Postman
11 128 (2.12%) Artifactory
12 119 (1.97%) CircleCI
13 106 (1.76%) Jasmine
14 95 (1.57%) TeamCity
15 94 (1.56%) Bitbucket Server
16 82 (1.36%) WebDriver
17 76 (1.26%) Visual Studio
18 73 (1.21%) Maven
19 65 (1.08%) JMeter
20 64 (1.06%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 2,726 (45.15%) Finance
2 2,188 (36.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2,096 (34.71%) Law
4 1,065 (17.64%) Social Skills
5 1,035 (17.14%) Marketing
6 741 (12.27%) Legal
7 587 (9.72%) Banking
8 337 (5.58%) Analytical Skills
9 311 (5.15%) Investment Banking
10 266 (4.41%) Public Sector
11 263 (4.36%) Financial Institution
12 173 (2.87%) Influencing Skills
13 152 (2.52%) Retail
14 76 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
15 74 (1.23%) Billing
16 64 (1.06%) Private Banking
17 63 (1.04%) Aerospace
18 61 (1.01%) Front Office
19 59 (0.98%) Retail Banking
20 52 (0.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2,087 (34.56%) Software Engineer
2 1,157 (19.16%) Developer
3 1,130 (18.71%) Lead
4 975 (16.15%) Senior
5 711 (11.78%) Java Engineer
6 693 (11.48%) Java Software Engineer
7 678 (11.23%) DevOps Engineer
8 589 (9.75%) Lead Software Engineer
9 507 (8.40%) AWS Engineer
10 490 (8.12%) Data Engineer
11 381 (6.31%) Python Engineer
12 357 (5.91%) Big Data Engineer
13 356 (5.90%) Senior Developer
14 346 (5.73%) Python Software Engineer
15 339 (5.61%) Big Data Software Engineer
16 317 (5.25%) Cloud Engineer
16 317 (5.25%) Full Stack Engineer
17 306 (5.07%) AWS Software Engineer
18 282 (4.67%) Full Stack Software Engineer
19 281 (4.65%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 906 (15.00%) React
2 795 (13.17%) Spring
3 745 (12.34%) .NET
4 543 (8.99%) AngularJS
5 527 (8.73%) Kafka
6 492 (8.15%) HTML
7 464 (7.68%) Node.js
8 450 (7.45%) CSS
9 443 (7.34%) Spring Boot
10 420 (6.96%) REST
11 394 (6.53%) RESTful
12 369 (6.11%) JSON
13 294 (4.87%) J2EE
14 289 (4.79%) Web Services
15 217 (3.59%) GraphQL
16 214 (3.54%) PySpark
17 210 (3.48%) .NET Core
18 208 (3.44%) Hibernate
19 201 (3.33%) .NET Framework
20 191 (3.16%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 904 (14.97%) Cloud Native
2 845 (13.99%) Algorithms
3 362 (6.00%) Public Cloud
4 338 (5.60%) Product Ownership
5 239 (3.96%) Management Information System
6 221 (3.66%) Onboarding
7 207 (3.43%) Distributed Systems
8 195 (3.23%) Data Structures
9 129 (2.14%) Greenfield Project
10 119 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
11 113 (1.87%) Hybrid Cloud
12 105 (1.74%) Mobile App
13 87 (1.44%) Market Risk
13 87 (1.44%) Private Cloud
14 81 (1.34%) Enterprise Cloud
15 80 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
16 76 (1.26%) Reference Data
17 70 (1.16%) IoT
18 68 (1.13%) Blockchain
19 61 (1.01%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 714 (11.83%) Linux
2 278 (4.60%) Windows
3 190 (3.15%) Unix
4 90 (1.49%) Android
5 75 (1.24%) Windows Server
6 58 (0.96%) CentOS
7 55 (0.91%) Apple iOS
8 47 (0.78%) Debian
9 44 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 40 (0.66%) Alpine Linux
11 21 (0.35%) VMS
12 16 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
12 16 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
13 15 (0.25%) Mac OS
14 11 (0.18%) Oracle Linux
14 11 (0.18%) Solaris
15 10 (0.17%) Ubuntu
16 8 (0.13%) Windows 10
17 5 (0.083%) Windows Server 2012
18 3 (0.050%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,795 (62.85%) Agile
2 2,939 (48.68%) Software Engineering
3 2,515 (41.65%) DevOps
4 2,185 (36.19%) SDLC
5 1,608 (26.63%) Operational Stability
6 1,497 (24.79%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1,453 (24.06%) Machine Learning
8 1,312 (21.73%) Community of Practice
9 1,100 (18.22%) Continuous Improvement
10 1,047 (17.34%) Microservices
11 979 (16.21%) Problem-Solving
12 877 (14.52%) Visualisation
13 865 (14.33%) Infrastructure as Code
14 846 (14.01%) Test Automation
15 822 (13.61%) Continuous Delivery
16 771 (12.77%) TDD
17 730 (12.09%) Full Stack Development
18 725 (12.01%) Risk Management
19 714 (11.83%) Continuous Integration
20 661 (10.95%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2,230 (36.93%) Java
2 1,891 (31.32%) Python
3 1,707 (28.27%) SQL
4 959 (15.88%) JavaScript
5 873 (14.46%) C#
6 564 (9.34%) TypeScript
7 364 (6.03%) Scala
8 329 (5.45%) PowerShell
9 327 (5.42%) Go
10 294 (4.87%) Bash
11 159 (2.63%) PL/SQL
12 127 (2.10%) Kotlin
13 122 (2.02%) PHP
14 98 (1.62%) Ruby
15 95 (1.57%) Bicep
15 95 (1.57%) Shell Script
16 86 (1.42%) C++
17 83 (1.37%) C
18 65 (1.08%) Prolog
18 65 (1.08%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 521 (8.63%) Degree
2 477 (7.90%) Security Cleared
3 293 (4.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 279 (4.62%) SC Cleared
5 174 (2.88%) Azure Certification
6 157 (2.60%) AWS Certification
7 125 (2.07%) Master's Degree
8 115 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
9 113 (1.87%) DV Cleared
10 61 (1.01%) DBS Check
11 52 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
12 50 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
13 46 (0.76%) CISSP
14 45 (0.75%) MCSE
15 42 (0.70%) MCSA
16 31 (0.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 31 (0.51%) CCSK
16 31 (0.51%) CCSP
17 30 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 28 (0.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 414 (6.86%) QA
2 154 (2.55%) Accessibility
3 86 (1.42%) Data Quality
4 74 (1.23%) SLA
5 53 (0.88%) GDPR
6 37 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 30 (0.50%) NIST
8 20 (0.33%) PMO
9 17 (0.28%) PCI DSS
10 11 (0.18%) HIPAA
10 11 (0.18%) PSD2
11 10 (0.17%) WCAG
12 8 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
13 7 (0.12%) ISO 13485
14 5 (0.083%) GRC
14 5 (0.083%) ISO 9001
14 5 (0.083%) NCSC
15 3 (0.050%) WAI
16 2 (0.033%) MiFID
16 2 (0.033%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1,242 (20.57%) Docker
2 165 (2.73%) Active Directory
3 118 (1.95%) HDFS
4 96 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
5 49 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
6 43 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
7 33 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
8 23 (0.38%) VMware NSX
9 22 (0.36%) Hyper-V
10 16 (0.26%) vSphere
11 11 (0.18%) Firmware
11 11 (0.18%) Time Sharing Option
12 7 (0.12%) Ceph
12 7 (0.12%) KVM
13 4 (0.066%) Virtual Servers
14 3 (0.050%) Varnish
14 3 (0.050%) VirtualBox
14 3 (0.050%) Xen
15 2 (0.033%) Apache ZooKeeper
16 1 (0.017%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 1,569 (25.99%) Kubernetes
2 1,350 (22.36%) Terraform
3 428 (7.09%) Ansible
4 296 (4.90%) Grafana
5 176 (2.91%) Prometheus
6 121 (2.00%) Puppet
7 71 (1.18%) Progress Chef
8 66 (1.09%) Kibana
9 50 (0.83%) HAProxy
10 44 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
11 35 (0.58%) Istio
12 30 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 28 (0.46%) Docker Swarm
14 26 (0.43%) Packer
15 22 (0.36%) Consul
15 22 (0.36%) SCCM
16 21 (0.35%) ITRS Geneos
16 21 (0.35%) Zipkin
17 20 (0.33%) Nagios
18 19 (0.31%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 744 (12.32%) Microsoft
2 418 (6.92%) Oracle
3 384 (6.36%) Databricks
4 293 (4.85%) Google
5 233 (3.86%) Splunk
6 197 (3.26%) Dynatrace
7 101 (1.67%) VMware
8 98 (1.62%) Red Hat
9 90 (1.49%) Informatica
10 82 (1.36%) Cloudera
11 76 (1.26%) IBM
12 73 (1.21%) Atlassian
13 59 (0.98%) Alteryx
14 58 (0.96%) Salesforce
15 38 (0.63%) ServiceNow
16 31 (0.51%) Cisco
16 31 (0.51%) Sybase
17 27 (0.45%) Xamarin
18 24 (0.40%) Facebook
19 22 (0.36%) Pega